I heard Emperor Chongzhen speaking seriously to his ministers: "The most important purpose of summoning the ministers today is also for this pimple disease!"
Upon hearing this, the civil servants and eunuchs below could not help but be stunned for a moment. What does it mean?
From what the emperor said, it seems that there is really a cure for pimple disease?
Thinking of this, they were suddenly surprised.
"This pimple disease, to be precise, should be called plague! Why do I say that?" Emperor Chongzhen asked a question when he said this.
"I don't know!" How could the people below know? Of course, even if they had speculations, they would not dare to say anything in front of the emperor, so they had to respond in unison.
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen said calmly: "You don't know. I tell you that there are actually two types of pimple disease, but they are both transmitted from rats, so they are called plague. There was also a plague in Xiyi.
This disease spread on such a large scale, they called it the Black Death, and nearly 25 million people died. Almost one in three people would die from this disease!"
Hearing this, everyone took a breath of cold air.
Although this disease did break out in some places in the Ming Dynasty, and the death was widespread, the number of people who died was far less than 25 million!
However, they did not doubt Emperor Chongzhen's words, because the disease was so severe that there was no cure, and it could easily be spread to people around him.
When Sun Chuanting heard this, he quickly asked: "Your Majesty, has the Western Yi found a way to deal with this plague?"
Upon hearing this, other ministers probably understood that the emperor must have learned about the disease from Xiyi and found a solution, so he summoned them urgently to talk about it?
But who would have expected that Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said: "The Western Yi people don't know how to cure it either. They used bloodletting, which is completely wrong!"
In the 16th year of Chongzhen, when the plague broke out in the capital, there is a record that a Fujianese used bloodletting to practice medicine in the capital. This may be the reason why he heard that the Western Yi people used bloodletting for treatment.
At this time, after hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, Zuo Maodi asked anxiously: "Since the Western Yi people don't know how to treat it, what was the subsequent result? They can't always have this plague, right?"
At this time, there were already many Western barbarians operating in the Ming Dynasty, and they had seen some of them, but had not heard anything about this plague.
Judging from this point, the plague in Xiyi should be gone. Why is it gone?
Many people thought of this and looked at Emperor Chongzhen with anticipation, hoping to get the answer they were looking forward to.
However, Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "Everyone who has contracted the plague has died, and the plague has ceased."
After a pause, he added: "So many people died over there in Xiyi, and the land suddenly became sparsely populated, and all the people who got the plague died, and the plague was just gone!"
After he finished speaking, the Wenhua Hall became very quiet.
Because everyone was frightened, one person out of three was going to die. After the death occurred in a vast area with few people, the plague stopped on its own. What kind of terrifying world is this? If it happened in the Ming Dynasty, it might be even more tragic!
Seeing them like this, Emperor Chongzhen took the initiative and said: "But I have understood the entire process of the plague. Although it is currently impossible to cure the plague like smallpox, we can also use methods to greatly reduce the harm of the plague and control it.
, so as not to poison the vast majority of the people of the Ming Dynasty!"
Hearing this, everyone in the Wenhua Palace couldn't help but be greatly surprised. Each one expressed the emperor's might to Emperor Chongzhen, and urged the emperor to quickly explain to them what was going on with the plague and what should they do.
Of course, there is a lot of flattery in the middle.
Emperor Chongzhen was very pleased after listening to their words.
So, he cheerfully explained to these ministers: "Remember that I said that there is a tiny world, a world that we cannot see with the naked eye. Do you need to use the microscope I invented to see it? And let mice or us people be infected.
The main culprit of this plague is a very tiny thing called Yersinia pestis. If you are interested, my glass factory will soon be able to produce a microscope. You can buy one and take a look.
That subtle world!”
I don’t know if it was because Emperor Chongzhen was eager for money that he unknowingly began to promote his Chongzhen microscope instead of directly giving the microscope to these courtiers.
There is an advertisement for a microscope here, which may also be a subconscious behavior. Because Emperor Chongzhen continued to explain and did not count the number of people who bought microscopes: "Under normal circumstances, the plague bacteria only exist in mice. However, if the mice
If fleas jump on people and bite them, and the plague bacteria enters our blood, we will become sick."
These people in the Wenhua Hall had never heard of Emperor Chongzhen's words before. Now they heard Emperor Chongzhen speak clearly and logically, so they all listened attentively.
"Of course, there is another way of transmission, which is the way for people to be infected with plague, which is for hungry people to eat undercooked rat meat. If the rat happens to be infected with plague bacteria, then hungry people will also be infected with the disease!"
After Emperor Chongzhen said this, his voice rose a bit, emphasizing the next words: "Attention, sir, please note that before it spreads to people, this plague bacteria is not easy to spread. However, once a person is infected
This disease can be spread through droplets. To put it simply, it can be spread through the air. This method of transmission is very powerful!"
Hearing this, all the ministers looked at each other, feeling a bit unimaginable.
Because in their opinion, how could this Yersinia pestis be transmitted through the air?
They can imagine that it is transmitted through flea bites, but airborne transmission is really a bit unimaginable!
This is not to blame them. In the original history, Wu Youke, who wrote "On Plague", was the first to discover the existence of plague, which means that plague can spread through the air.
After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, looking at the expressions of these ministers, he felt a little proud. This was similar to the expression he had when he heard Liu Weichao say that diseases can be spread through the air!
With this in mind, he pointed at the window of the main hall and said: "If you still don't believe it, you can go to the window and take a closer look. When the sun shines in, you will see the light between the gaps. You will find that we cannot see it."
There are actually a lot of things in the air that you can't touch, and you can see them even without a microscope!"
This is really a bit unimaginable.
The clever Wang Chengen confirmed the expression of Emperor Chongzhen, and was the first to go to the window to check according to what Emperor Chongzhen said, and then he started to make a fuss: "Long live my Lord, I really must have seen it, there must be something in the air, long live it"